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An Exploratory Study of Curiosity in Three-, Four- and Five-Year-Old Children

This study investigated the development of curiosity in young children. A previous study by Kreitler, Zigler, and Kreitler had identified five specific types of curiosity, manipulatory curiosity, perceptual curiosity, conceptual curiosity, curiosity about the complex, and adjustive-reactive curiosity. The basic problem was to describe the development of these five types of curiosity in three-, four-, and five-year-old children. A secondary problem was to determine if children follow a predictable pattern in their development of the five types of curiosity. Five tasks, measuring nineteen variables of curiosity, were administered individually to thirty three-year-olds, thirty four-year-olds, and thirty five-year-olds by a trained rater. Mean scores for each variable and each type of curiosity were calculated for each group.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc331562
Date05 1900
CreatorsFoote, Martha M. (Martha McNew)
ContributorsSchmidt, Velma, Kurth, Ruth J., Luttrell, H. Dale, Hammack, Barbara G.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 204 leaves: ill., Text
RightsPublic, Foote, Martha M. (Martha McNew), Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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